Bob Higgins <[email protected]> wrote:
> Piantelli was describing the various ways that energy can be stored in an > experiment with hydrogen, and included the comment about 1,312 kJ/mole for > IONIZED hydrogen. > It is not possible to store this much energy in hydrogen. > If you multiply the ionization energy of about 13.6 eV/atom by 6.02E23 > atoms/mole and convert to kJ, you get this well known number. He was not > suggesting that this is a practical way of storage, but simply a part of > the total energy accounting that must take place. > This is not merely impractical, it is impossible. Since it is impossible, it makes no sense to claim that a total energy accounting must be done to assure this has not happened. If anything remotely like this were possible it would revolutionize chemical energy storage. It would be tremendously important, and it would merit a Nobel. If anyone has a "screw loose", it is NOT Piantelli - he is spot on when you > finally grasp what he has said, and knows the physics and thermodynamics > extremely well. > If Piantelli thinks it is possible to store this much energy in hydrogen, and he thinks this must be accounted for because it might happen, then he does not understand calorimetry or ordinary chemistry, and yes, he does a screw loose. - Jed
